What is strength? To ability to protect? To conquer? The power to change the world? How does one become strong? Training? Being beaten and broken until you cannot feel pain? Natural ability? What defines strength and what makes one strong?

A certain Marquis finds himself stranded in a strange land, only to be rescued by an equally strange Breton woman who calls herself Gizi. The two traverse the frozen lands in search of a way to bring him back home, encountering the dangers of the land, as well as some familiar faces. POSSIBLY DAVIDxGIZI

What if Rush never went to the Sacred Lands with the other Remnants on the Cleansing Day? What if he was actually sent to the Soul Society and becomes a Soul Reaper Captain? He is then given a mission to protect a certain man, the Lord of Athlum, David.